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International street artist, teacher, activist, and canvas painter CECE CARPIO, is married to the Struggle, has a love affair with Art, a fling with Music, and a commitment to family, community and justice. From the mountains of the Philippines to the hustle of Brooklyn, Cece paints constantly. Equal parts illustrator, muralist and canvas painter, her work combines bold portraits, natural elements and historical moments to tell stories that move. Her heart beats for the Bay Area, hip hop, freedom fighters worldwide and everyday people struggling for survival. Cece was a 2010 Immigrant Artist fellow with New York Foundation of the Arts, NYFA and a 2005-2007 National Fellow for the Environmental Leadership Program. She directed various Youth program for Environmental Health at Literacy for Environmental Justice, a youth empowerment and environmental justice organization in the Bayview Hunters Point community of San Francisco. Previously, Cece coordinated the Youth Envision program where she trained high school youth in community assessment and advocacy skills around food security and environmental justice issues, and implemented a Good Neighbor Program to promote environmental sustainability and improve the quality of food available for local residents. She then carried her work to Brooklyn working as Program Director for UPROSE, implementing environmental justice initiatives in the issues of air justice, brownfields, and green economy. Cece was also a member of the Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines and worked on arts and activism, cultural resistance, indigenous peoples rights, and social justice for communities of color. She is currently teaching with JuanaAlicia in the True Colors Mural project at Berkeley City College. The True Colors Mural Project supports the development of young artist activists for the improvement of the urban environment through the creation of public murals. The purpose of the murals is to both educate urban dwellers and beautify the urban environment with messages and images that support ecological sustainability, conservation and restoration. Cece is also painting with the Water Writes project with Estria Foundation creating murals reflecting communities issues with water. She can often be found painting with her crew the Trust Your Struggle artist collective, working in collaboration with other artists, teaching arts education and traveling around the world in pursuit of the perfect wall. She has produced and exhibited work in the Philippines, Fiji Islands, Cuba, Italy, Norway, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and numerous cities throughout the United States. www.cececarpio.com

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Pulitzer winner searches for faces of People Power
Pia Faustino, GMANews.TV

Between 1984 and 1986, Komenich and reporter Phil Bronstein from the San Francisco Examiner travelled to the Philippines numerous times to cover one of the world’s biggest stories — the events before, during, and after the 1986 People Power revolution.

During those years, Komenich took more than 20,000 photographs that would eventually become quintessential images of the world’s first bloodless revolt and earn him the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Reporter Phil Bronstein’s coverage of the fall of the Marcos regime was also a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Twenty-five years later, Komenich is 54 years old and back in the Philippines. But this time, he’s on a new assignment – to track down, interview, and photograph the people he photographed in 1986. The results of Komenich’s search will be assembled in “Revolution Revisited,” a documentary film about the 25th anniversary of People Power that will aim to tell the story of the Philippines, post-EDSA, through the individual stories of those who witnessed the revolution first hand.

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Metro Manila Skyline at 11:52pm of Dec. 31, 2010

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